Microsoft Defender has gone from a placeholder to something you can reasonably trust. For a lot of people, Defender is good enough.
But that’s the part that people may miss. “Good enough” depends on how you use your computer.
If your online life is fairly predictable, sticking with Defender makes sense. Once you start downloading a lot of files, testing software or spending time outside the usual corners of the web, the risks increase.
That’s where I land. I use Microsoft Defender, and I love it, but I treat it as an initial line of defense, not my entire approach.
Microsoft Defender does a lot of things right
Microsoft Defender has come a long way from its earlier reputation of being a basic antivirus to use while you figured out which antivirus you were actually going to install for your Windows machine. Over the past decade, though, Microsoft has
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